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stickygreen
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| Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 1:41 am Post subject: M-audio Revolution 5.1 > Onkyo HT-rc260 |
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long time lurker, first time poster..
please be gentle
I was wondering if anyone can help me, I just got a new receiver the Onkyo Ht-RC260, and I am feeding it a Coax signal from my HTPC that is equipped with a M-audio Revolution 5.1 sound card, I chose this card long ago, cause it had the best sounding analogue output of any other sound card at the time. My previous Amp was analogue in, so it worked great. But I just got this new Onkyo, and I ma having troubles getting surround sound to play, It seems that anything surround sound is coming thru with the voices very low in volume, I have even tried to crank up the center channel +10db, and turn down the rest of the system -10db, but it's still only a very faint sound coming from the center channel..?
what am I doing wrong? or is there a hardware conflict with this sound card?
I know the center channel works, as it sounds great when I play a movie with a blue ray player, just the signal from the computer is the problem.
anyone have any ideas?
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MikeEby
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What OS on the HTPC? If it's Vista or Windows 7 they both have test tones for levels. I would start there and see what it sounds like.
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stickygreen
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| Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 4:49 am Post subject: |
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Operating system, XP x86
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ecrabb
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I have a Revo 7.1... I used to have it my Mac and now have in my Windows HTPC. I've never had any trouble with it, but it was tricky to get it set up to output AC-3 and DTS bitstreamed...
My experience has varied wildly depending on what software application I'm using for playback. The nightmare of getting audio to just work right is one of the main reasons I don't use my HTPC much anymore. What a pain in the ass.
Can you tell by looking at the Onkyo what is getting output from the Revo? Is it AC-3? What's your source (what app are you trying to use) on the HTPC?
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stickygreen
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 2:11 am Post subject: |
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found the problem it was in the media player program > MPC
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WanMan
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Hmm, MPC should prevent surround sound unless a stereo-only profile was chosen.
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